On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Nicholas Loki <
lokimwenga@yahoo.com> wrote:
> To be honest I never saw this one coming. After the SUN, IBM court that went
> bust a while back I thought Sun had given up on suitors. Well, the good news
> is Oracle and SUN seem to be operating in disparate industies in some places
> e.g. hardware, Java the language, OSes (i.e. Solaris). But the real measure
> of what this means for the tech industry is what will Oracle do with those
> areas in which the two giants meet, mainly databases (Oracle vs MySQL) and
> enterprise middleware (WebLogic and Oracle app server vs Glassfish), even
> OSes (Oracles unbreakable *nix vs Solaris). Will they scrap some products in
> favor of others or will they mesh them to come up with one killer product. I
> still think that the open source offerings by either will not go away, but
> will they get better, that is the question?
> Loki
>
> "Excellent people exceed expectations".
>
> ________________________________
> From: Paul George Kariuki <
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> To: Skunkworks forum <
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arthursimiyu@yahoo.com
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 6:54:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Oracle acquires Sun
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> These two have been courting intimately over the last few years.
> Most versatile Oracle DBs are hosted on Sun Solaris OS and Sun SPARC
> Hardware.
> Java is an integral part of the Oracle DB. In fact most procedures in Oracle
> are written in Java. The Oracle EnterPrise Manager is also java based.
>
> May be it is time they took their relationship to the next level and got
> married ;
>
> ________________________________
> From: Simon Mbuthia <
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> To:
arthursimiyu@yahoo.com; Skunkworks forum <
skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
> Sent: Monday, 20 April, 2009 16:51:14
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Oracle acquires Sun
>
> Hey guys,
>
> About MySQL, I'm not really sure what's likely to happen, maybe
> they'll kind of mix MySQL technologies into Oracle DBMS [purely
> guesswork - same applies to OpenSolaris and Oracle Linux... maybe] As
> for Java, I believe it'll remain open-source together with NetBeans.
> They'll probably extend Java, increasing its capabilities.
>
> But the best thing is to wait and see. I don't think they'll do
> anything bad to these already popular tools and technologies.. :)
>
>
> Me.
>
> On 20/04/2009, Arthur Simiyu <
arthursimiyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Just the thought that the future of MySQL, Java, Netbeans, OpenSolaris and
>> so many more open source applications now lie in the hands of Oracle gives
>> me shivers up my spine.
>>
>> regards,
>> Simiyu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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